Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears | Solar power | The Guardian

Not directly about Octopus, but I remember Ripple Energy being discussed here a couple of years ago, and the state of the grid infrastructure being discussed here quite often.

\> Britain’s biggest community solar project has been forced to shut for the duration of its first summer by the government’s energy system operator to avoid overloading the local grid with renewable energy.

\> The north Devon solar farm was ordered to shut weeks before record high temperatures across Europe led to power supply warnings, due to concerns that the large amount of rooftop solar in the area could destabilise the power grid by triggering a “thermal overload”.